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==Editorial==
 
==Editorial==
  
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This number of Wikimedia News, just before Christmas, is being published in a characteristic period for our association and all of WMF; we are in the middle of fundraising (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/it). I believe that everybody, and especially our members, know that it's necessary to support, also financially, both Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia Foundation. Together with the usual reports for activities and events, so, the Board wants to urge all readers to take part, both physically and financially, in the needs of the the association.
I wish a happy social year to every member and to the board, and I hope that it will bring growth and development to our Wikimedia Italia.
 
  
 
Senpai
 
Senpai
  
 
==What happened last month==
 
==What happened last month==
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* November 2, Pavia: we attended ''Sapere libera tutti!'', a day dedicated to the new ways for creating a collective culture. The report from EdoM:
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*:I don't know what kind of promotion the event had, but at least in the morning there were just we speakers among the members of WMI. I don't know if in the afternoon some other people came.<br />Cristina Moretto made a short introduction, then Simone talked about history and logic of the licenses. His talk was quite interesting, and the public from a lot of questions. I talked more or less for 20 minutes about wiki philosophy and the various projects.<br />The other speakers were Simone Cortesi (OSM) and Christian Biasco (about his work).
  
*September 6th, 2008 - at CEFORS, in Marcianise (CE), we held the Annual Meeting of Wikimedia Italia Association. Its agenda:
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* November 28-30, Faenza: we attended Meeting delle Etichette Indipendenti. The report from Senpai:
#Report from the Board about the State of the Association
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*:This year, Meeting delle Etichette Indipendenti was below par. Maybe there were less visitors, but it's certain that they were much less willing to support our projects. Takins were much lower than last year: many visitors looked at our stand, said "Oh, Wikipedia", and then went away. I had the impression that the casual user takes our projects for grant. Maybe we should try and explain that the fact that Wikipedia and the other WMF project are free (as in beer) does not mean that we don't need money to run them.
#Changes to the Regulations of the Association
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*:Maybe we could think at some effective slogan to let people know that the lack of donations will lead to the closing of the projects.  
#Ratification of the Board Deliberations
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*:Leaving aside the financial issues, we took advantage from MEI. We managed to get in touch with some music companies interested in copyleft; in the near future we will be therefore able to insert a lot of new content, especially for classical music, but also for some rock and electronic music, in the pages of our project [http://musica.wikimedia.it Musica].
#Approval of the Final Balance for 1H2008
 
#Renew of Social Offices
 
#Discussion about policies and activities of the Association.
 
:Wiki@Home staff made a [http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/WMI_Caserta_2008:_un_report_da_Wiki@Home WMI report (in Italian)] for the event, and an [http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/WMI_Caserta_2008:_intervista_al_nuovo_direttivo interview (in Italian)] to the new appointed Board.  
 
  
*September 13th and 14th: we attended the Arezzo Copyleft Festival. Here there is a short report by Senpai:
 
:The Copyleft Festival in Arezzo has been a really good place to make contact with the world in favour of the free spread of knowledge. We have a notable talk with the staff of Schiaffo Edizioni, who will probably add some of their short stories in Biblioteca. Also notable was a talk with the organization, which led to the possibility that next year WMI will take part to Italia Wave (one of the most important music festivals in Italy). Out presence wouold be important especially since we are broadening our scope to include music.
 
:We also met the authors of [[:it:Don_Zauker|Don_Zauker]], an Italian comic strip, who agreed to look at the articles about them in it.wiki and who gave us an [[:it:Immagine:DZ_trequarti.jpg|illustration for the comic in cc-by-sa]].
 
:As for participation... well... we had continuing rain, with very few glimpses of sun. It was however nice to talk with many users of it.wiki, who asked us a lot of questions and bought some gadget.
 
:From an economic point of view, taking into account the really bad weather, the result was rather satisfactory.
 
  
*September 20th, Schio (VI): we attended "[http://www.agorapolis.eu/_detail/2008/manifestosfd08.png?id=2008%3Asfd08 Software Freedom Day]" at the Piazza Telematica di Schio with two talks: "Wikipedia e i contenuti liberi" (Wikipedia and free contents) and "Wikimedia Commons e i 500 anni di Palladio" (Wikimedia Commons and Palladio's 500th Anniversary).
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==Future events==
  
==What will happen next month==
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* March WMI Meeting: The meeting which should let us change our Charter and eventually become a Non Profit association might not be held. After the proposal of a few location for the meeting, no official bid has been made yet: we need to have a final bid by the end of December, or the meeting shall not be held.
  
*October 18th, Milano: we will attend [http://www.humanistforum.eu/ European Humanist Forum]. We will have a stall and we will join the panel ''Digital Technologies to enslave us or at the service of humanity?''. We should also be part of the working group "Digital Technology".
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* Wikimangia: Since March and April 2009 will be full of events (WMI Meeting, Chapter Meeting, Easter), Senpai thought that it would be nice to anticipate the usual "eat-and-drink-alot" gathering in February. The program will consist in a day of skiing (Saturday), while laziers will appreciate the typical pubs near the ski tracks, and quaff hot chocolate or alcoholic beverages. As usual, we need quickly to know how many people think to attend the event, so please gave us some feedback!
 
 
*October 23th-26th, Firenze: We will attend [http://www.festivaldellacreativita.it/ Festival della Creatività]]. This year we will have a stand in a nice position, at the entrance of the main pavillon. Moreover wikinews and the blog of the festival will collaborate. All members of WMI, and especially those involved in wikinews, are urged to give a hand, since this is a really big event (last years there were 350.000 visitors in 4 days), so that we will need a lot of help.
 
 
 
*October 25th: As usual, we will attend [http://www.linuxday.it/ Linux Day] in several Italian cities; who would like to represent the Association at a Linux Day near home should leave his/her name in the [[w:it:Wikipedia:Raduni/Linux Day 2008|relevant page in wikipedia]], asking also for promotional material when possible.
 
  
 
==News from our projects ==
 
==News from our projects ==
 
===News from Italian WMF projects===
 
===News from Italian WMF projects===
*'''Wikibooks''': More than 60% of modules is classified according to [[b:Help:Development stages|Development stages]]. More than 3,600 modules are present.
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*'''Wikibooks''': [[Meta:Image:Wikibooks simple book blue beige.svg|New logo]] was approved. We need just the last details.
*'''Wikinotizie''': Reached 6,200 articles.
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*'''Wikinotizie''': Reached 6,500 articles.
*'''Wikipedia''': [[w:it:Wikipedia:Festival della qualità|Festival della qualità]]: after the  [[w:it:Wikipedia:Festival_della_qualità/Agosto settembre 2008|Festival for rewriting sentences using "purtroppo"]] ended, now we have [[w:it:Wikipedia:Festival della qualità/Settembre ottobre 2008|Festival for cleaning RevertBot]].
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*'''Wikipedia''': Fundraiser started. [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/11/25/wikimedias-fundraiser-which-banners-click/ Here there are the statistics] about efficacy of the various requests to donate.
*'''Wikiquote''': Gacio quit from sysop. Verbal and direct sources are now deprecated, as per the new guidelines.[http://it.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Niente_ricerche_originali&diff=prev&oldid=207811] [http://it.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Aiuto:Fonti&diff=prev&oldid=207812] [http://it.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Modello_di_voce&diff=prev&oldid=207813]
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*'''Wikiquote''': [[Wikiquote:Wikiquote:it:Bar#Burocrazia|A proposal]] was made to promote all sysop to bureaucrat, like in es.wiki. Two new pages featured: ''[[Wikiquote:it:Matrix|Matrix]]'' and ''[[Wikiquote:it:Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]''. ''[[Wikiquote:it:Catechismo della Chiesa cattolica|Catechismo della Chiesa cattolica]]'' was voice #8,000.  
*'''Wikisource''': OrbiliusMagister has been elected bureucrat.
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*'''Wikisource''': Still [[w:s:it:Wikisource:Bar#Sempre_sempre_copyright_.28manifesti.2C_volantini_ecc..29|discussions]] about copyright: text of posters, leaflets, flysheets, may be defined ''public domain'' like public speeches?
*'''Wikiversità''': Nick1915 quit from sysop. Reached 5,800 total pages.
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*'''Wikiversità''': [[w:v:it:Utente:Danielg|Danielg]] quit from sysop.
*'''Wikizionario''': After voting, Frieda, .mau., Snowdog, The Doc have been revoked sysop status. Reached 95,000 headwords.
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*'''Wikizionario''': [[Wiktionary:it:Wikizionario:Discussione_policy#transfen_e_ricontrollare|Approved]] a rule which will lead to deletion of [[Wiktionary:it:Categoria:Da ricontrollare|thousands]] of [[Wiktionary:it:Categoria:Voci_trasferite_dal_wikizionario_inglese|lemmata]] automatically imported from en.wikt in 2005 and 2007.
  
===News from W@H===
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==News from association==
  
During the meeting in Caserta, a report for the last season of interviews has been shown. Torsolo won the Wiki@Home Prize 2007/08 (see article (in Italian) on [http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/WMI_Caserta_2008:_un_report_da_Wiki@Home Wikinotizie]). An interview to the mathematician Piergiorgio Odifreddi is in the works; who wants to cooperate may access [http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinotizie:Storie_in_preparazione/Intervista_a_Piergiorgio_Odifreddi the relevant page].
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*Wikimedia Italia, together with [http://nl.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Nederland], sent a statement about the [[Libro verde su «Il diritto d'autore nell'economia della conoscenza»|Green Paper on copyright]] which European Union prepared (the link refers to the statement by Wikimedia Italia).  
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*For the holiday season, our Association promotes '''"Regala Wikimedia"''' (Wikimedia as present). Through our online shop, [http://shop.wikimedia.it/index.php?main_page=gv_faq at this page], people may buy a gift token that can be spent in Xmas gadgets by WMI; we suggest to every member to pamper her/himself with a wikigift! By the way, we added new pins and some stickers; we are also purchasing a new model of t-shirt and a new sweatshirt.
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* [http://wiki.media.hu Wikimedia Hungary], one of the latest Wikimedia Chapters, partially modeled its  homepage after ours.
  
==News from Wikimedia Italia==
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===News from Biblioteca===
*Our Association has a new [[Direttivo|Board]], which includes:
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*Mizardellorsa has nearly completed the upload of the latest book by Simone Aliprandi about copyleft. Whoever wants to lend a hand will find our guidelines [http://biblioteca.wikimedia.it/wiki/Guida_all%27uso_delle_licenze_e_degli_altri_strumenti_CC here].
:[[Utente:Frieda|Frieda Brioschi]], president
 
:[[Utente:Senpai|Luca Sileni]], vice-president and secretary
 
:[[Utente:Cruccone|Marco Chiesa]], board member (and attached to international relationship)
 
:[[Utente:.mau.|Maurizio Codogno]], board member
 
:[[Utente:Nemo|Federico Leva]], board member and treasurer
 
  
===New Project===
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===News from Musica===
We just started a new project under the umbrella of Wikimedia Italia: [http://musica.wikimedia.it/wiki/Pagina_principale Musica]. Its goal is to collect songs, lyrics and scores released under a free license. '''''Musica''''' will be officially launched at the end of October at Faenza, during M.E.I. 2008. Before that date, all members are invited to give their contribution to let this new idea start well.
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* At MEI we approached some recording label interested in copyleft. During the next days we will fatten our site.
 
 
===News from Biblioteca===
 
After a quick poll we decided to split Biblioteca in two sections, one for texts which cannot be put on wikisource because of differences in copyright laws between Italy and U.S., and another for recent texts released under a Creative Commons license. Now we are discussing [http://biblioteca.wikimedia.it/wiki/Biblioteca:Bar al the project's Village Pump] how to put in practice this split.
 
  
==Featured Wikimedian/Picture of the month==
 
<Center>The picture of the monty is of course from the meeting in Caserta</center>
 
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W i K i M e D i A N e W s no. 22 - December 3rd, 2008


Official monthly bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.

Editorial

This number of Wikimedia News, just before Christmas, is being published in a characteristic period for our association and all of WMF; we are in the middle of fundraising (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/it). I believe that everybody, and especially our members, know that it's necessary to support, also financially, both Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia Foundation. Together with the usual reports for activities and events, so, the Board wants to urge all readers to take part, both physically and financially, in the needs of the the association.

Senpai

What happened last month

  • November 2, Pavia: we attended Sapere libera tutti!, a day dedicated to the new ways for creating a collective culture. The report from EdoM:
    I don't know what kind of promotion the event had, but at least in the morning there were just we speakers among the members of WMI. I don't know if in the afternoon some other people came.
    Cristina Moretto made a short introduction, then Simone talked about history and logic of the licenses. His talk was quite interesting, and the public from a lot of questions. I talked more or less for 20 minutes about wiki philosophy and the various projects.
    The other speakers were Simone Cortesi (OSM) and Christian Biasco (about his work).
  • November 28-30, Faenza: we attended Meeting delle Etichette Indipendenti. The report from Senpai:
    This year, Meeting delle Etichette Indipendenti was below par. Maybe there were less visitors, but it's certain that they were much less willing to support our projects. Takins were much lower than last year: many visitors looked at our stand, said "Oh, Wikipedia", and then went away. I had the impression that the casual user takes our projects for grant. Maybe we should try and explain that the fact that Wikipedia and the other WMF project are free (as in beer) does not mean that we don't need money to run them.
    Maybe we could think at some effective slogan to let people know that the lack of donations will lead to the closing of the projects.
    Leaving aside the financial issues, we took advantage from MEI. We managed to get in touch with some music companies interested in copyleft; in the near future we will be therefore able to insert a lot of new content, especially for classical music, but also for some rock and electronic music, in the pages of our project Musica.


Future events

  • March WMI Meeting: The meeting which should let us change our Charter and eventually become a Non Profit association might not be held. After the proposal of a few location for the meeting, no official bid has been made yet: we need to have a final bid by the end of December, or the meeting shall not be held.
  • Wikimangia: Since March and April 2009 will be full of events (WMI Meeting, Chapter Meeting, Easter), Senpai thought that it would be nice to anticipate the usual "eat-and-drink-alot" gathering in February. The program will consist in a day of skiing (Saturday), while laziers will appreciate the typical pubs near the ski tracks, and quaff hot chocolate or alcoholic beverages. As usual, we need quickly to know how many people think to attend the event, so please gave us some feedback!

News from our projects

News from Italian WMF projects

  • Wikibooks: New logo was approved. We need just the last details.
  • Wikinotizie: Reached 6,500 articles.
  • Wikipedia: Fundraiser started. Here there are the statistics about efficacy of the various requests to donate.
  • Wikiquote: A proposal was made to promote all sysop to bureaucrat, like in es.wiki. Two new pages featured: Matrix and Fight Club. Catechismo della Chiesa cattolica was voice #8,000.
  • Wikisource: Still discussions about copyright: text of posters, leaflets, flysheets, may be defined public domain like public speeches?
  • Wikiversità: Danielg quit from sysop.
  • Wikizionario: Approved a rule which will lead to deletion of thousands of lemmata automatically imported from en.wikt in 2005 and 2007.

News from association

  • Wikimedia Italia, together with Wikimedia Nederland, sent a statement about the Green Paper on copyright which European Union prepared (the link refers to the statement by Wikimedia Italia).
  • For the holiday season, our Association promotes "Regala Wikimedia" (Wikimedia as present). Through our online shop, at this page, people may buy a gift token that can be spent in Xmas gadgets by WMI; we suggest to every member to pamper her/himself with a wikigift! By the way, we added new pins and some stickers; we are also purchasing a new model of t-shirt and a new sweatshirt.
  • Wikimedia Hungary, one of the latest Wikimedia Chapters, partially modeled its homepage after ours.

News from Biblioteca

  • Mizardellorsa has nearly completed the upload of the latest book by Simone Aliprandi about copyleft. Whoever wants to lend a hand will find our guidelines here.

News from Musica

  • At MEI we approached some recording label interested in copyleft. During the next days we will fatten our site.

Editorial staff:

  • Luca Sileni;
  • Frieda Brioschi;
  • Marco Chemello;
  • Nemo (section "News from our projects")
  • Aubrey (section "News from Biblioteca")
  • DracoRoboter and Elitre (section "News from W@H")

To contact the staff, write at: redazione@wikimedia.it or directly to the editor:

  • Luca Sileni - wikisenpai@gmail.com
  • Frieda Brioschi - ubifrieda@gmail.com

Notice. This newsletter is exclusively intended for information about Wikimedia Italia, both to the members and to the general public; as per Art. 1, Comma 2, Legge 7 marzo 2001 no. 62, it is not an editorial product